Hugh Wooldridge
Review: BLACK CAT: BOHEMIA at The Underbelly Festival on London’s Southbank
By Hugh Wooldridge Monday, September 3 2018, 15:04
In spite of the small size of the venue, the quality of the Black Cat: Bohemia circus skills is great. And at 70 minutes, this is a really fun way to spend part of an evening. Recommended.
Review: Baz Luhrmann’s STRICTLY BALLROOM The Musical at The Piccadilly Theatre
By Hugh Wooldridge Thursday, April 26 2018, 15:37
To create a great musical, all the stars in the creative firmament have to align: all the artistic and technical departments in a collaborative art-form involving, perhaps, a hundred people, have to coalesce as one. This they did at the Piccadilly Theatre on Tuesday night though, strictly speaking, Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical is not a musical, it is a heavily disguised play with music.
Strictly Ballroom London - PERHAPS PERHAPS - photo by Johan Persson
Preview Report: THE GRINNING MAN at Trafalgar Studios
By Hugh Wooldridge Wednesday, December 13 2017, 09:07
Having been widely acclaimed at its debut at the Bristol Old Vic, I saw the second preview of The Grinning Man in its new London home, the Trafalgar Studios.
Review: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES at Jermyn Street Theatre
By Hugh Wooldridge Tuesday, December 12 2017, 20:40
For a pre-Christmas and early January romp, hie thee to The Hound of the Baskervilles at the splendid pocket-sized Jermyn Street Theatre.
Review: SATORI at the London Coliseum
By Hugh Wooldridge Saturday, December 9 2017, 11:30
People speak of Sergei Polunin with the same awe and reverence given to Rudolph Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is another wunderkind of dance, one who attracts headlines for the unorthodox. He is also no stranger to performing in different media, most recently as Count Andrenyi in Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express.
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